Stanley Norman (skipjack)

The Stanley Norman is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1902 by Otis Lloyd, Salisbury, Maryland. She is a 48-foot-3-inch-long (14.71 m) in Length overall with length on deck (LOD) OF 47.5-foot-long (14.5 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 16 feet (4.9 m), a depth of 4 feet (1.2 m) at the stern with the centerboard up, and a registered tonnage of 7 tons.[2][3]

STANLEY NORMAN
Stanley Norman (skipjack) is located in Maryland
Stanley Norman (skipjack)
Stanley Norman (skipjack) is located in the United States
Stanley Norman (skipjack)
LocationInn at Perry Cabin
Built1902
Architectural styleSkipjack
MPSChesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference No.85001086 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 16, 1985

Stanley Norman is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and was a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. The vessel was extensively rebuilt, renovated and the process documented from 1976 ti 1980. In 1990 the vessel was sold to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and is based in Annapolis, Maryland, used as a teaching vessel. On December 9, 2003, a fire in the cabin caused some damage, though there was no major damage.[2]

The vessel was based in Annapolis at either Annapolis City Dock near the Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre (as pictured) or the Annapolis Maritime Museum[note 1] and also operated from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland.[4] The teaching program aboard covered history and present issues of the Chesapeake, including the life of the Bay's waterman, and allowed participants to dredge for oysters and conduct water quality tests.[4][5] The Stanley Norman was retired from the Chesapeake Bay Foundations Fleet in the summer of 2020. On May 9, 2022, the "Stanley Norman" was purchased by RDC Inn at Perry Cabin LLC and now resides at Inn at Perry Cabin resort along the Miles River in St. Michaels, Maryland.

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 60, and was previously dredge 20.[6]

Footnotes
  1. City Dock is in the center of historic Annapolis. The Annapolis Maritime Museum is located in the Eastport area of Annapolis at 723 Second Street where the museum's own historic skipjack, Wilma Lee is based.

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "Maryland Historical Trust". STANLEY NORMAN (skipjack). Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-06-14.
  3. "Chesapeake Bay Skipjack STANLEY NORMAN". Classic Sailboats. 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  4. "Skipjack Stanley Norman". Chesapeake Bay Foundation. 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  5. "Skipjack Environmental Education Program". Chesapeake Bay Foundation. 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  6. Miller, Cyndy Carrington. "Skipjacks by dredge number". The Last Skipjacks Project. Retrieved 21 March 2022.


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